In helping us address the Debate Question (above), we must consider how scorn and enmity toward the Jews could have possibly arose, and then the allegedly divine retribution for the Jews' behavior.At first, Muhammad and his Allah invited the Jews (and Christians) to Islam:"O you who were given the Scripture, believe in what We have sent down [to Muhammad], confirming that which is with you, before We obliterate faces and turn them toward their backs or curse them as We cursed the sabbath-breakers. And ever is the decree of Allah accomplished." (Quran 4:47)But sadly for Muhammad, many Jews were unwilling to believe him. Perhaps these Jews disapproved of Muhammad stealing goods from caravans, as this violated one of their Ten Commandments. Or maybe they did not want a god who is The Best of the Deceivers. In any case, many Jews decided not to convert to Islam and become Muslims. And we thus have Quranic verses of scorn and enmity toward the Jews, verses guiding Muslims to this very day:"​Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute [Jizya] readily, being brought low." (Quran 9:29)All this means is "Fight the Jews & Christians who do not believe Muhammad and his god, until the Muslims get paid a tribute."Other verses of enmity and scorn toward the Jews include:"For the iniquity of the Jews We made unlawful for them certain (foods) good and wholesome which had been lawful for them..." (Quran 4:160)"O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say 'We believe' with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews,- men who will listen to any lie..." (Quran 5:41)And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah... How perverse are they!" (Quran 9:30) [as an aside note: The Jews have never regarded Ezra as the Son of God!]

Finally, let us consider this most significant hadith:

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Sahih Muslim 41:6985).CLEARLY, ALLAH'S MESSENGER, MUHAMMAD, ENVISIONS ONGOING STRIFE BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND JEWS UNTIL JUDGMENT DAY, LIKELY MANY YEARS FROM NOW (if it happens at all).

﻿"About this time there arose in my heart the desire to lead an expedition against the infidels, and to become a ghazi; for it had reached my ears that the slayer of infidels is a ghazi, and if he is slain he becomes a martyr. It was on this account that I formed this resolution, but I was undetermined in my mind whether I should direct my expedition against the infidels of China or against the infidels and polytheists of India. In this matter I sought an omen from the Qur'an, and the verse I opened upon [Q66:9] was this, 'O Prophet, make war upon infidels and unbelievers, and treat them with severity.' My great officers told me that the inhabitants of Hindustan were infidels and unbelievers. In obedience to the order of Almighty Allah I ordered an expedition against them."﻿

Believing that while Muslims are "the best of nations" (Quran 3:110), disbelievers, though, are "the worst of creatures," (Quran 98:6), the "vilest of animals," (Quran 8:55), and "people without intelligence" (Quran 8:65). Many Muslims do not regard the lives of disbelievers as being worth much.Does Allah intend to impose any penalty at all on Muslims who murder nonMuslims? Quran 4:93 suggests an answer. In Quran 4:93 we read: "But whoever kills a believer intentionally - his recompense is Hell" Allah could have instead decreed: "But whoever kills anyone intentionally - his recompense is Hell," But Allah chose not to say that. Allah favors major, severe punishment only when a Muslim has been murdered.Consequently, we cannot be surprised that in Saudi Arabia, when a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the prescribed blood money rates are as follows according to Wikipedia:300,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man150,000 riyals if a Muslim woman50,000 riyals if a Christian or Jewish man25,000 riyals if a Christian or Jewish woman6,666 riyals if a man of any other religion3,333 riyals if a woman of any other religion Our Debate Question is "Besides the proclamation of Allah, is there any other evidence that Muslims are superior to nonMuslims?

Arguing that a Jewish tribe called the Banu Qurayza had violated a treaty with the Muslims, Muhammad had several hundred Jewish prisoner-of-war executed, as we read in the following Sahih Bukhari hadith: "Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: The people of (Banu) Quraiza agreed to accept the verdict of Sad bin Muadh. So the Prophet sent for Saad, and the latter came (riding) a donkey and when he approached the Mosque, the Prophet said to the Ansar, 'Get up for your chief or for the best among you.' Then the Prophet said (to Sad).' These have agreed to accept your verdict.' Sad said, 'Kill their (men) warriors and take their offspring as captives, ' On that the Prophet said, 'You have judged according to Allah's Judgment.' Recalling that not even Hitler chose to have nonescaping prisoners-of-war executed, our Debate Question is then; "Was the execution of these Jewish prisoners-of-war proper and moral?"

We see in Quran 9:29 that Allah instructs Muslims to fight disbelievers until they pay money to the Muslims. Some Muslims claim that this money is a "tax."We should note that in the time of Muhammad, we did not have democratically-elected governments with defined borders; we can suspect then that what is happening with jizya collection is one tribe attempting to force its will upon another tribe. And indeed, a hadith from Sahih Bukhari (4:386) confirms this:“…So, ‘Umar sent us (to Khosrau) appointing An-Numan bin Muqrin AS OUR COMMANDER. When we reached THE LAND OF THE ENEMY [NOTE: not the Muslim's land], the representative of Khosrau came out with forty-thousand warriors, and an interpreter got up saying, “Let one of you talk to me!” Al-Mughira replied, “Ask whatever you wish.” The other asked, “Who are you?” [THEY DO *NOT* KNOW THE MUSLIMS; THE MUSLIMS ARE NOT FELLOW COUNTRYMEN] Al-Mughira replied, “We are some people from the Arabs; we led a hard, miserable, disastrous life: we used to suck the hides and the date stones from hunger; we used to wear clothes made up of fur of camels and hair of goats, and to worship trees and stones. While we were in this state, the Lord of the Heavens and the Earths, Elevated is His Remembrance and Majestic is His Highness, sent to us from among ourselves a Prophet whose father and mother are known to us. Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, has ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah Alone or give Jizya [THE MUSLIMS DO NOT SAY WE WISH TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH YOU, BUT INSTEAD THREATEN VIOLENCE UNLESS THEY GET PAID MONEY OR THE OTHERS CONVERT]No one elected the Muslims, their threat of violence to obtain money for themselves certainly lacks legitimacy. It is not surprising then, that the Islamic State seeks jizya from disbelievers in areas that it currently controls. So our question to the Muslims is "WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF ANOTHER RELIGION HAD AS ONE OF ITS TENETS 'FIGHT THE MUSLIMS UNTIL THEY PAY US MONEY'?"